Off the Beaten Track in Somerset

Dawe's Twineworks in the village of West Coker is the only surviving Victorian twineworks with its original working machinery in Britai...

On the west wall of the north aisle of St Bartholomew's Church in Crewkerne is a brass memorial to Adam Martin of Seaborough, who died i...

The West Somerset & Devon Shirt Company built a factory in Abbey Street, Crewkerne  c1872-1875.  They moved there from their original pr...

Hugh Montague Trenchard is regarded as the "Father of the Royal Air Force".  He was born at Windsor Lodge, Haines Hill, Taunton on...

Teddy Bear Crossing  is located half a mile east of Williton, where a footpath between Torweston Farm and Sampford Mill Farm crosses the Wes...

On the afternoon of 9th March 1891, 24 year old  Amos Cann, who lived on at Greenland Farm in Exford with his father Richard Cann, travelled...

William Smith  was a civil engineer, geologist and a pioneer in the science of stratigraphy.  He drew up the first geological map of England...

St Andrew's Church in Old Cleeve is a little gem and contains a great many interesting features.  There has been a church on the same s...

In 2014, as part of the Minehead Maritime Heritage Project, seven plaques were created and mounted on the harbour wall. They were unveiled b...